I watched the happy, fulfilled customers sitting at the other tables in the restaurant. How could they appear so perfectly adjusted and calm while an atom bomb was exploding in my head? Some time ago, ...

Q: My neighbor’s son was just diagnosed with KCNT1 seizures, and they said it was a very rare disorder. Aren’t seizures fairly common in children? A: The brain has many nerve cells that communicate ...

This is number 68 in a series of "Studies in Epilepsy," from the Seizure Unit, Children's Medical Center. Aided by research grant B-211 (C3), National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, ...

In a recent study, genetic mutations of the KCNQ2 potassium ion channel were identified in 8/80 (10%) of children with early infantile seizures and associated psychomotor retardation. [1] Seizures ...

The present study was designed to evaluate the genetic mechanisms in patients with focal epileptiform discharges in the mid-temporal or central regions, an electroencephalographic abnormality of high ...

EPILEPSY is a health-related disability whose causation is often associated with witchcraft in the context of Zimbabwe. But from the lens of scientific knowledge systems, witchcraft cannot be ...